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Five sus­pects, in­clud­ing one mi­nor, were ar­rest­ed and a firearm, two mag­a­zines and quan­ti­ties of drugs and am­mu­ni­tion seized dur­ing on­go­ing week­end State of Emer­gency op­er­a­tions in the Cen­tral and North Cen­tral Di­vi­sions.

In the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion, of­fi­cers con­duct­ed an ex­er­cise be­tween 7 pm and mid­night on Sat­ur­day 7 March 2026, at a bar in the Ch­agua­nas dis­trict. A search of the premis­es un­cov­ered a Smith and Wes­son pis­tol loaded with a mag­a­zine con­tain­ing four rounds of am­mu­ni­tion, found in the pos­ses­sion of a 44-year-old Ch­agua­nas man, who was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the find.

The ex­er­cise was co­or­di­nat­ed by Snr. Supt. Bhag­wan­deen, Supt. Glodon, Supt. Frank, ASP Reyes, ASP Her­nan­dez and ASP Ho­sein, su­per­vised by In­sp. Joseph, and in­clud­ed per­son­nel from the Ch­agua­nas Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment, the Home In­va­sion Task Force and the Cen­tral Di­vi­sion Task Force.